Time really flies when you're having fun. Becca already went home...yesterday. Sigh. It was so nice having her around, a little piece of home that would play with me. We did so much while she was here, I don't even know where to begin. We managed to get to the city everyday (except a day or two) and bustled around there. Okay, I am so going to cheat right now. I wrote a long email about me and Becca's crazy adventure galavanting around Australia, so I am going to copy and paste it here because I am lazy. (And of course the email's in bullet style with a splash of poor grammer because I was too lazy to write a real email...bah.)

*we went to tons of places around town, like thisfruits and veggies market, the lagoon (a nice placeyou can lay out), the beach, an art gallery, shoppingat this hippy store (bec made a pretty sweet braceletout of beads), out to eat at a bunch of differentplaces...basically we spent trillions of dollars

*had a couple of nights on the town! we danced thenight away to some horrible techno and ofcourse...GREASE! why do they insist on playing musicalnumbers at the bars and clubs around here? i just dontget it. then we made fun of people and their lack ofrhythm. becca got stuck dancing with this kidwho had this really wierd pouty, almost painful lookon his face...i somehow dragged her away from him. wegot home the first time at 4:30 in the morning. thesecond time, we had to be up early so we couldnt stayout as late. so, we got home around 4:15 in themorning. ahhh...life in the fast lane.

*we spent a lot of time at the beach (complete with a photoshoot of course)

*then we hit up Kuranda - its a village, in the mountains,in the rainforest

. we stayed at this sweet hostel andmet some interesting characters. a lot of guys withbeards who didnt wear shoes...go figure. so, we went horsebackriding! it was...AWESOME. we got to gallop andeverything. we went down these steep, treacherouspaths, through a river, across fields, right by allthese cows, and galloped across the fields. yeah, itwas so much fun. we were with these 2 whiny girlsfrom new york and me and bec were afraid they weregoing to ruin it and we wouldnt be able to do any coolstuff. luckily we killed them and so it didnt evenmatter...just joshin.

*in kuranda, the next morning, we took a long hikealong a railroad track to this waterfall.unfortunately i didnt have any of my hiking/rockclimbing gear with me so we didnt make it to theactual falls. but we did make it to this water holejust before it and lounged around for about an hour

.after that, we visited this bat house and it was neat.we saw live bats and a chicken who had feathersgrowing out of his feet. it was weird.

*then it was time to go home. so we took the skyraildown the mountain (its a gondala along a huge cablethat goes over the rainforest). becca was tired andcranky, so it could have been a little more fun. ohyeah and i forgot to mention that we took a train onour way up the mountain. it was almost like harrypotter. that was really cool. we saw a waterfall upclose and we really liked it.

*once back in town, becca became even more grumpy whenwe found out that the market closed early on sundays.SO, we had to find a place to get souveniers for herfriends. wouldnt you know that Giftworld was justaround the corner. she got everyone boomerangs andshot glasses for cheap

. so then she was happy again.and that was her last night here. she left at 4:30 thenext morning. its so sad not having her around anymore!

~a little side bar (i forgot to mention)~

1. mat, my boy roommate, will be gone until august 20visiting family. yeah, he went to the airport lastwednesday. so you know how he got to the airport? IDROVE him. thats right. i, rachel kilian, drove on thewrong side of the road. it was nuts. becca yelled(yeah i made her come with me) 'rachel we're gonnaDIE!!' but we didnt. because im awesome. it was prettyscary though. the blinkers opposite, the steeringwheels opposite, the streets opposite, the cars areopposite, i was opposite

. you get it. i even took awrong turn, so i almost got us lost and had to U it.U-ing it is much harder when youre U-ing the other wayon the other side of the street. yep, we almost died.

ok, so, so much for a little short email. my bulletsturned into paragraphs. oh well. ilove you guys and really miss you! sorry these emailsare so sporatic. my internet situation is still notcompletely under control (wires + hungry cockatoos =no internet or t.v. in rachels apartment).g'day, mates!

And so that's what happens when I'm really tired from my week of utter Australian chaos. Hope you don't mind the second hand email. Oh yeah, make sure you check out our pictures and the movie I made of our adventure!